UWBM Invertebrate Paleontology Collection

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 23,281 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

University of Washington Burke Museum Invertebrate Paleontolgy Collection

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Washington Burke Museum. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: e6033178-5da4-411d-91cf-457683f28b3d.  University of Washington Burke Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

The 3.6 million specimens making up the Invertebrate Fossil and Microfossils Collections are arranged stratigraphically. The fossils are mostly marine and include specimens from all over the world, but the emphasis is on material from western North America. Fossils from Washington state include Cambrian trilobites and molluscs, Paleozoic fauna from accreted terrains in the north eastern and north central part of the state, Cretaceous molluscs from the Islands, and a wealth of Cenozoic marine fossils from the coastal regions. The collections also include fossils from investigations into the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, from Europe, Tunisia and Antarctica. The current digitization efforts focus on our collections of the Cenozoic era from the Eastern Pacific, ranging from Alaska to the southern tip of South America. Most of our collections in this range represent specimens from the state of Washington.

Taxonomic Coverage

Approximately half of the invertebrate paleontology collections are mollusks (bivalves, gastropods, ammonoids and nautiloids) from the Cretaceous and Cenozoic of western North American and the Pacific Rim. In addition to the extensive Charles E. Weaver collection of Mesozoic South American material, there are also significant collections from western Europe. Recently donated material includes: comprehensive collection of exhibit-quality decapod crabs and shrimps from the Pacific Northwest collected and donated by Ross Berglund, large collections of mollusks from Fiji and Okinawa collected and donated by Emeritus Professor Alan Kohn, and ammonoids from the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary of Antarctica collected (NSF funded field work) by Peter Ward and his students in 2009 and 2011.

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